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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fundraiser
noun
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▪ As well as teaching, Pauline has been a very active fundraiser at local and national levels.
▪ Colleagues rally round to help Ann KIND-HEARTED fundraisers pulled out all the stops to donate more than £1,500 to a very ill colleague.
▪ Neither Wilson nor Philip Morris mentioned the 1990 fundraiser in their campaign finance reports.
▪ Second, most face-to-face fundraisers are young people themselves.
▪ Some leaders of these organizations have held Buchanan fundraisers, collected petitions for Buchanan and spoken at state Reform Party meetings.
▪ The mistress, political fundraiser Linda Jones, was granted a pardon, too.
Wiktionary
fundraiser

n. An event undertaken to get money by voluntary contributions for a particular activity, such as equipment for extracurricular sports programs, or to defray laboratory costs (salaries) for research of a cure for a particular disease.

WordNet
fundraiser

  1. n. someone who solicits financial contributions

  2. a social function that is held for the purpose of raising money

Wikipedia
Fundraiser (The Office)

"Fundraiser" is the twenty-second episode of the eighth season of the American comedy television series The Office and the show's 174th episode overall. The episode originally aired on NBC in the United States on April 26, 2012. "Fundraiser" was written by Owen Ellickson and directed by David Rogers. The episode guest stars Andy Buckley and Jack Coleman.

The series—presented as if it were a real documentary—depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. In this episode, Andy Bernard ( Ed Helms) crashes a fundraiser and ends up adopting twelve dogs. Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson) learns that an auction winner loses money. Nellie ( Catherine Tate) learns how to eat a taco.

"Fundraiser" received mixed reviews from critics. According to Nielsen Media Research, "Fundraiser" was viewed by an estimated 4.17 million viewers and received a 2.1 rating/6% share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, making it the lowest-rated season eight episode of The Office to air. The episode ranked third in its timeslot and was also the highest-rated NBC series of the night.

Usage examples of "fundraiser".

Hawk said, "I don't know how he met Allison, but it certainly wasn't at any fundraiser like he claimed.

Not, as previously, in his capacity as a dilettante astrologe r, but as the manager, organizer, fundraiser, and recruiter par excellence for the Parapsychic Center.

Joy now taught gymnastics at a forward-thinking elementary school in a wealthy liberal suburb of Chicago, and neither the parents nor the school board minded when she brought her long-term partner Carol to the annual spring fundraiser.

Without fundraisers and patrons eyeing the tax deduction, it would have to close its doors.

Must be five hundred people shook her hand at parties and fundraisers and dinners, not to mention our wedding.

There are fundraisers to attend, lobbyists to entertain, and mistresses to screw.

Between the wedding and Santini's entourage and their fundraiser and Christmas, I don't know which end is up today.